Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - Dap-Dippin' With... - Modern Funk & Soul - LP
LP

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - Dap-Dippin' With...

Label: Daptone Records
Catalog#: DAP-001
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
New
Country: US
Released: 2002
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Funk

Tracklist

A1 (Introduction)
A2 Got A Thing On My Mind
A3 What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Written-By, Arranged By - J. Harris, T. Lewis
A4 The Dap Dip
A5 Give Me A Chance
A6 Cut The Line
A7 Untitled


B1 Got To Be The Way It Is
B2 Make It Good To Me
B3 Ain't It Hard
B4 Pick It Up, Lay It In The Cut
B5 Casella Walk

Credits
Photography - Dulce Pinzón
Producer - Bosco Mann
Recorded By - Gabriel Roth
Written-By, Arranged By - Bosco Mann (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B5)

Notes:

Recorded in Duke's basement, Brooklyn.

Tracks A6 and A7 are not listed on the record sleeve. A6 is listed on the center label.


Well, the cat's out of the bag. No longer do up-and-coming soul bands strive to sound like the antiseptic Brand New Heavies or, worse yet, insipid Jamiroquai. The Poets of Rhythm proved that rough could still sound good as far back as 1993. Phillipe Lehman and Gabe Roth founded Desco Records in the mid-1990s because they knew that a certain subset of America's funk-buying public would die for a bass that was plucked and not slapped. For drums that danced around rhythms instead of avoiding them.
But oh, what a monster they spawned! It seems that every white boy with a 4-track cassette recorder heard Brainfreeze, ordered Volumes 1-10 of The Sound of Funk comps and figured he could form a band to record with the chutzpah of Mickey and the Soul Generation and the Ebony Rhythm Band. But grasshopper forgot that those late-'60s funk legends had musical prowess. Grasshopper forgot that they all looked up to James Brown, who recorded ballads alongside the hardest funk instrumentals. Thank God Roth and Neal Sugarman (of boogaloo funksters the Sugarman Three) didn't forget. Thank God they formed Daptone Records and recorded — gasp — an album. Not a series of unrelated songs, but a string of winners, plucked out by a bona fide soul revue backing up dynamite Desco alumnus Sharon Jones. This album is as much about them as it is about Ms. Jones' and her ferocious vocals. Take one listen to their cover of Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" and you'll know why.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - What Have You Done For Me Lately?

San Jose Jazz Festival

pretty funky performance. good singer man. great stuff! you guys got soul



Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Got a Thing on My Mind